Java – Convert date and time between timezone

In this tutorial, we will show you few examples (ZonedDateTime (Java 8), Date, Calendar and Joda Time) to convert a date and time between different time zones.

All examples will be converting the date and time from

(UTC+8:00) Asia/Singapore - Singapore Time
Date : 22-1-2015 10:15:55 AM

to

(UTC-5:00) America/New_York - Eastern Standard Time
Date : 21-1-2015 09:15:55 PM

2. Date

Note
The  java.util.Date has no concept of time zone, and only represents the number of seconds passed since the Unix epoch time – 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. But, if you print the Date object directly, the Date object will be always printed with the default system time zone. Check the  Date.toString() source code.

2.1 Set a time zone to DateFormat and format the java.util.Date

SimpleDateFormat sdfAmerica = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-M-yyyy hh:mm:ss a");
sdfAmerica.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York"));
String sDateInAmerica = sdfAmerica.format(date);

2.2 Full example

package com.mkyong.date;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class DateExample {

    private static final String DATE_FORMAT = "dd-M-yyyy hh:mm:ss a";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {

        SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);

        String dateInString = "22-01-2015 10:15:55 AM";
        Date date = formatter.parse(dateInString);
        TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();

        // From TimeZone Asia/Singapore
        System.out.println("TimeZone : " + tz.getID() + " - " + tz.getDisplayName());
        System.out.println("TimeZone : " + tz);
        System.out.println("Date (Singapore) : " + formatter.format(date));

        // To TimeZone America/New_York
        SimpleDateFormat sdfAmerica = new SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT);
        TimeZone tzInAmerica = TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/New_York");
        sdfAmerica.setTimeZone(tzInAmerica);

        String sDateInAmerica = sdfAmerica.format(date); // Convert to String first
        Date dateInAmerica = formatter.parse(sDateInAmerica); // Create a new Date object

        System.out.println("\nTimeZone : " + tzInAmerica.getID() + " - " + tzInAmerica.getDisplayName());
        System.out.println("TimeZone : " + tzInAmerica);
        System.out.println("Date (New York) (String) : " + sDateInAmerica);
        System.out.println("Date (New York) (Object) : " + formatter.format(dateInAmerica));

    }

}

Output

TimeZone : Asia/Kuala_Lumpur - Malaysia Time
TimeZone : sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="Asia/Kuala_Lumpur",...]
Date (Singapore) : 22-1-2015 10:15:55 AM

TimeZone : America/New_York - Eastern Standard Time
TimeZone : sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="America/New_York",...]
Date (New York) (String) : 21-1-2015 09:15:55 PM
Date (New York) (Object) : 21-1-2015 09:15:55 PM

From:https://www.mkyong.com/java/java-convert-date-and-time-between-timezone/